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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
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Subject: Re: risc registers and cache
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 13:23:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 13:23:41 1983
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>      How about that ?  Seymour Cray was right !!!  :-)

I seriously doubt that anyone who has written a compiler for a CDC 6x00
ever imagined otherwise.  If you haven't tried it, you should.  Take
FORTRAN (please) or any other language whose inherent operations and
types map well onto the machine's instruction repertoire and internal
representations, and assume that you have expression trees of the
customary sort to work with.  You can EASILY write a code generator
whose output is on an efficiency par with, say, MNF.

If the result of the foregoing exercise doesn't impress you, then
work the same problem again, substituting "Z-80" for "CDC 6x00".

Try it.  You'll like it.

-- 
   Jim ({ihnp4,kpno,ut-ngp}!ut-sally!crandell or crandell@ut-sally.UUCP)